Courtesies cannot be borrowed like snow shovels; you must have some of your own.

Courtesy is the one coin you can never have too much of or be stingy with.

One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half.

When a customer enters my store, forget me. He is king.

A man's not doing much until the cause he works for possesses all there is of him. Desire, when harnessed, is power.

I know that half of my advertising dollars are wasted ... I just don't know which half.

Nothing comes merely by thinking about it.

No mistake or failure is as bad as to stop and not try again.

Gratitude takes three forms: a feeling in the heart, an expression in words, and a giving in return.

Hey, Geekoid!" yelled Duncan Dougal, "Why do you read so much? Don't you know how to watch TV?

A writer is the one who loves to write . . . on and about anything . . . And this clears that I am a writer!!

Kind words are a creative force, a power that concurs in the building up of all that is good, and energy that showers blessings upon the world.

Empires and churches are born under the sun of death.

Don't make a whole to-do about it. Don't get down on yourself be- cause you're not an expert rower; don't start reading too many books in order to do it right.

My focus is my art, and that's what I love to do. I have to be really passionate in order to do something. I've turned down many things that I just didn't believe in.

A person's life from infancy to old age is nothing else than an advance from the world towards heaven, the last stage of which is death; the actual transition from one life to the next.

A knowledge that another has felt as we have felt, and seen things not much otherwise than we have seen them, will continue to the end to be one of life's choicest blessings.

Incredibly, inordinately, devastatingly, immortally, calamitously, hearteningly, adorably beautiful.

I watched a lot of movies. I was deeply influenced by movies.